Problems Dilemmas and Dichotomies November 30, 2007
Posted by Lance in Behaviour, Starting Out, blogging.trackback
Last week I posted that I was having problems coming to terms with my apparent (OK, let’s be honest here: complete) lack of activity when it came to blogging.
Jeanette (of From the Principal’s Desk) left the comment that:
It doesn’t surprise me that you’ve struggled with your perspective on blogging, as I suspect any thoughtful blogger likely has done so. It’s a tool, and like any tool, there are times blogging will be useful, and times it won’t.
I started to reply to this, but after my reply started to ramble a bit, I thought to myself, “here’s your opportunity – this is where posts come from!” (I know – slow off the mark, but I am getting there). So please indulge me here while I divert from my original plan of looking at e-tools. After all, isn’t that the benefit of blogging? It’s dynamic.
Anyway, I think I have figured out what my problem was/is. I don’t know what I want my ‘voice” to be. When I started, it was just an experiment - I was playing, so the tone was very light. As I started to take the process a little more seriously, the tone subtly changed. I’ve been looking over the vast list that is my previous posts and I can see the change.
So, as I see it, I now have two key decisions to make: what is that I want to say, and how do I want to say it?
The first question is easy: I have no idea, but the ideas will come, of this I have no doubt, but the second is the difficult one. I can tend to be a fairly serious person by nature, with a natural propensity to over think just about everything, but I also try not to take it all too seriously. After all, as the man said, “no-one gets out alive”.
Perhaps the best option is to just write and see how it turns out?
After all, it’s just possible that I’m just over thinking all this. May have to ponder that one for a while.
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